Attorneys

Our Mission

Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting consumer and financial fraud—everything from false advertising to insider trading to unpaid overtime. We are based in San Francisco, CA and, with the help of co-counsel, litigate cases nationwide.

Together with its predecessor firms, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe has been in operation for over thirty-five years. In addition to prosecuting cases in California federal and state courts, the firm has been actively involved in securities, antitrust, unfair competition, and employment class actions throughout the United States. Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe has served as Lead Counsel or Co-Lead Counsel in class actions and shareholder derivative actions that have produced recoveries valued at over $850 million.

Our Attorneys

Partner

Robert C. Schubert

Rob received his B.S. degree from the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1966, where he graduated first in his class. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1969, after which he taught law at Columbia University and Golden Gate University. Rob actively practices law at both the trial and appellate levels. He specializes in complex litigation, particularly securities and antitrust class actions and shareholder derivative suits. Rob is a member of the state and federal bars of California, Massachusetts, and New York. Since 1971, he has also arbitrated numerous disputes for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Rob is the author of several published articles and lectures on class actions at the University of California, Hastings.

Education

HARVARD LAW SCHOOLJ.D., cum laude, 1969

CORNELL UNIVERSITYB.S., first in class, 1966

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

State Bar of New York

State Bar of Massachusetts

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the N.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the C.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the E.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the S.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the Dist. of Colorado

U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Partner

Willem F. Jonckheer

Willem received his B.A. degree from Colgate University in 1990. He was awarded his J.D. degree in 1995 from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he served as an article editor on the USF Maritime Law Journal and participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Willem was a law intern with the Pacific Stock Exchange, where he researched regulatory issues affecting national securities exchanges, and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, where he worked on enforcement cases. Since 2012, Willem has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Live Oak School, an independent K-8 school in San Francisco, where he served as Chairman of the Audit Committee, and as a member of select committees on Head of School compensation and school bylaws. Willem is a member of the Northern California Chapter of the Netherland-America Foundation, an organization dedicated to bilateral cultural exchange between the Netherlands and the United States. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1995.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCOJ.D., 1995

COLGATE UNIVERSITYB.A., 1990

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the N.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the C.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the S.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the Dist. of Colorado

Partner

Dustin L. Schubert

Dustin received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He was awarded his J.D. degree in 2007 from Vanderbilt University Law School. Dustin was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2007 and previously interned with the San Francisco Superior Court for the Hon. A. James Robertson II. He has also interned for Bay Area Legal Aid.

Education

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITYJ.D., 2007

U.C. BERKELEYB.A., 2003

Bar Admissions

Partner

Noah M. Schubert

Noah received his J.D. cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2011, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the USF Law Review. Noah authored a comment titled Replacement Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court: The Use of Temporary Justices to Resolve the Recusal Conundrum, 46 U.S.F. L. Rev. 215 (2011), and was awarded Best Oral Argument in the Moot Court Program. Prior to law school, Noah worked as the Online Editor for the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC and served as the Online Media Manager for the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, MA. He has also served as part of the National Advance Staff for the Kerry-Edwards campaign and former Vice President Al Gore. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the N.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the C.D. of California

U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Education

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCOJ.D., cum laude, 2011

U.C. BERKELEYB.A., 2003

OF COUNSEL

Miranda P. Kolbe

Miranda received her B.A. from Hamilton College. She was awarded her J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, where she won the Prosser Prize in Civil Procedure and the Moot Court Advocacy Award. Miranda served as an Instructor for Boalt’s Legal Research and Writing class and interned at the Prison Law Office in San Quentin, California. She later served as a legal researcher in the Civil Division of the San Francisco Superior Court.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the N.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the C.D. of California

U.S. District Court for the S.D. of California

Education

U.C. BERKELEY, BOALT HALLJ.D., 1999

HAMILTON COLLEGEB.A., 1984

ASSOCIATE

Kathryn Y. Schubert

Kathryn received her B.A. from Cornell University in 2006. She was awarded her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2009, where she served as an executive editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Kathryn was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2009 and the State Bar of New York in 2012. She served as a judicial extern with the Santa Clara Superior Court for the Hon. J. Kleinberg. Kathryn previously worked for Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, where she represented public and private entities in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, senior and subordinated debt financings, securities offerings, executive compensation arrangements, and corporate governance.